Christ Fellowship Lead Pastor Todd Mullins and his wife, Julie, who together lead a congregation of nearly 30,000 people on multiple church campuses throughout South Florida, spoke in the DeSantis Family Chapel at Palm Beach Atlantic University on Tuesday as part of Church Connect Week.

Palm Beach Atlantic University is ranked 44th among the best universities in the South according to U.S. News & World Report's Best Colleges 2014 edition released today. The publication includes rankings of more than 1,400 schools nationwide. To learn more about the U.S. News College Compass, which provides access to the most complete rankings and data, visit the online U.S. News Store. Palm Beach Atlantic, which is tied with Shenandoah University in Virginia, moved up in this year's rankings from 50th last year.

Florida House Speaker Will Weatherford (R-Wesley Chapel) on Monday called on Palm Beach Atlantic University students to begin making a difference now. "I believe that young people today have a responsibility to engage in government," he said, speaking in the Lassiter Rotunda of the Warren Library as part of the University's LeMieux Center for Public Policy speaker series. "I don’t really care what level it is. You don’t have to be elected to office to be a public servant."